Each year our faculty and society members join together to contribute toward training, supervision, mentoring and participating in community outreach projects within our community. During the academic year, our faculty contributes over a thousand hours training licensed mental health professionals. We began two new training programs to provide child psychoanalytic training and advanced psychotherapy training for mental health professionals interested in the treatment of children. Many of our members are currently involved in helping with Katrina victims.   We also sponsored a task force in response to the Columbine School shootings. We provided volunteer debriefing services to the community in the aftermath of the tragedy. Subsequently, several articles were published** to summarize what we learned from that experience, to provide educational information to be used by other professionals.

[**"Healing After Columbine:  Reflections of Psychoanalytic Responders to Community Trauma" by Mary Ann Levy , Pamela Haglund, Linda Plaut, Robert Emde, Marguerite Stewart, Ronnie Shaw , Carol Ilvonen , Cathy Krown Buirski , Mel Singer, Rebecca Hea , and William Edwards (2004) in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 52:3

" Denver Analysts respond to the Columbine tragedy" by Levy, M.A., Stewart, M., Buirski, C.K., et al (2003) in The American Psychoanalyst 37(1):1 ]

We provide educational programs and a monthly educational lecture series to offer educators, scholars and interested mental health professionals access to current developments and debate within the field of psychoanalysis.

HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT US:
Our programs are funded by tuition, membership dues and the generous contributions from donors in the community. By making a contribution to The Denver Psychoanalytic Society or the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis, you are contributing to the creation and advancement of educational opportunities and to the expansion of the awareness and understanding of psychoanalytic concepts.

You are allowing us to continue to offer low fee analyses to members of the community and to continue to train psychoanalysts who volunteer regularly in the community at schools, in disaster situations and who teach and mentor. You are supporting the educational programs open to all members of the community on psychoanalytic subjects making psychoanalytic understanding accessible and you promote intellectual discussion that demonstrate the relevance of psychoanalytic understanding to every day life.

Your contribution is tax-deductible. Contributions of any amount are welcome.

We invite you to attend our fundraisers which are listed on this website under Community Events. 

Also, the DENVER PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY has affiliated with Cars for Charity: an easy process to dispose of your unwanted car or truck, receive a charitable tax deduction, and contribute to the Denver Psychoanalytic Society Fund the net proceeds of auction or salvage.  This will help keep our dues among the lowest in the country.  For instructions, call 303.853-GIVE or access their website at www.carsforcharity.net.